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Discovery & Needs Assessment · Reusable Template

Getting to know your ministry before we build a thing

A guided first conversation: here is what we already reviewed, what we want to learn from you, and where the Force for Health Network already overlaps the work you love. We leave with your priorities, timelines, and a right-sized plan.

1 · Review NeedsWhat we know + what they want beyond a basic site
2 · TimelinesWhat is Now, Next, and Later
3 · Preferences & FeedbackHow they like to work + engagement level
Step 1 · What we already reviewed

Here is our homework before the meeting

We looked at your public footprint so this time can be about you, not catch-up. Green means it exists and works; amber means an easy opportunity.

Opportunity

Website — agapechurchaz.org

Built on SnapPages. The home page currently reads "Changes are Coming Soon!" with only Home / Media / Contact / Give, a P.O. box, and phone. An Our Story page carries the rich history. Essentially a clean slate — which is good news.

  • No service times, events, or sermon archive up front
  • Give link present — keep and strengthen
  • Nothing yet for the Refugee Resource Center or missions
Active

Facebook

Agape Christian Church International has an active page (Tucson, AZ). This is likely where your real-time community lives today.

  • Good candidate to feed events + livestream into a new site
  • Confirm who manages posting and how often
Strong

LinkedIn — Valeene Bedford wears several hats

Associate Pastor
Agape Christian Church International — 24+ yrs of ministry leadership.
President
Seeds of the Heart International Missions Agency — pastoral & leadership development in Kenya & India.
Co-Founder & Director
Refugee Resource Center of Southern Arizona — 12+ yrs (Director since May 2014).
Director, Advocacy Initiatives
Community advocacy work — where it fits with the above is TBD.
  • Credibility and grant-readiness are already there
  • A key meeting goal: map how these hats connect and which one leads the tech we build first
Mission depth

The ministries at a glance

Agape CCI
Non-denominational, Tucson, since 1994. Homeless, prison, nursing home, youth literacy ministries.
Seeds of the Heart
Pastoral + leadership development in Kenya & India; ACCI/Kenya self-sustaining board model; youth mentoring stateside.
Refugee Resource Center
GED, job prep, digital literacy, entrepreneurship, acculturation, elder programs.
  • Ask about the recent merger with Dominion — what changed, what it means for branding, structure, and priorities, and how it should shape what we build first.
💡 Template note: for any new partner, we pre-fill this section from a quick scan of their site, Facebook, LinkedIn, and any listings. It signals respect and shortens the meeting.
Step 2 · Needs assessment

What are you actually looking for — beyond a basic website?

Check what matters. Set a priority. We will use your picks to recommend the simplest, most efficient tech, not the most expensive. Nothing here commits you to anything.

🎙️ No tedious note-taking: our meeting recording & transcript (VTT) can be run back afterward to auto-populate these notes. The quick-note box on each row is just there for a fast jot when you want to capture something in the moment.

🌐 Web presence & communications

The front door for each ministry.

Refreshed church websiteService times, events, sermon media, easy online giving
Refugee Resource Center presenceIts own page/site so funders and families can find it
Seeds of the Heart missions pageKenya & India story, partners, donate/sponsor
Email & announcementsReach members and donors directly, not just social

🎓 Learning, training & workforce

This is where the Refugee Resource Center becomes more than a website.

Online GED & adult educationSelf-paced tracks students can do between classes
Digital literacy modulesComputer + research skills for new arrivals
Job-readiness & entrepreneurshipWorkforce prep, internships, small-business basics
Multilingual tutor (30+ languages)Dr. Rob / Coach Lucy AI to help learners in their language

❤️ Health, screening & awareness

Where FFH + Sickle Cell Foundation of Arizona meet your community.

Sickle Cell education & awarenessEspecially for African-origin families at higher risk
Screening & testing navigationConnect families to screening and follow-up care
Health literacy for new AmericansNavigating the U.S. health system with confidence
Connect to local health resourcesClinics/FQHCs, AHCCCS & insurance enrollment, screening partners, follow-up care, a "near you" directory

📊 Operations, giving & reporting

The behind-the-scenes that keeps it sustainable and fundable.

Online giving & donor receiptsTithing, missions gifts, tax receipts
Grant-ready outcome trackingShow funders who was served and what changed
Volunteer & member managementSign-ups, roles, communication
Missions reporting (Kenya/India)Track leaders developed and churches supported
Step 3 · Right-sized tech

The simplest stack that does the job

We match the tool to the need. A church brochure site and a refugee learning hub are two different jobs — we do not overbuild the first or undersell the second.

If the need is: church front door

Template site — fast & affordable, yours to run

Service times, events, sermons, and a strong Give button. No custom engineering. Your team updates it without paying a developer each time.

SquarespaceWixDudaBuilt-in giving
If the need is: learning, workforce & health

Force for Health branded hub (white-label Academy)

A learning + workforce hub under the Refugee Center's own name and web address (e.g. learn.refugeeresourceaz.org): GED, digital literacy, workforce, multilingual tutor, progress tracking, and grant-ready reporting.

FFH AcademyMultilingual AICoins & badgesOutcome dashboards
If the need is: community leadership + funding

Chamber of Health — local Director activation

Valeene becomes a trained community Director. Grants and donations route through the Force for Health Academy Foundation as scholarships; the Foundation buys licenses from the Network at fair value — keeping nonprofit and for-profit cleanly separate.

Foundation (PPF)ScholarshipsDirector dashboard
🧭 How we decide together: your "Must-have" checks above map straight onto these three lanes. Most partners start with the template site and one hub track, then grow.
Step 4 · Where the Force for Health already overlaps your world

We are not starting from zero — we share the same map

Your ministries and our programs point at the same communities. These are ready-made bridges.

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Africa

My Healthy Africa

Our Active-Communities program + video library for African health. Aligns directly with Seeds of the Heart in Kenya and ACCI/Kenya.

Program & video playlist →
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India · Pune

Healthy India — Pune focus

Our India work centers on Pune. Seeds of the Heart already develops church leaders in India — a natural place to share curricula and reporting.

Leadership + health literacy
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Partner · SCFA

Sickle Cell Foundation of Arizona

Our partner for sickle cell education, screening & awareness. Sickle cell is far more common in African-origin populations — a direct fit for refugee families.

Screening · education · navigation
✝️
Faith-based

Faith & community health

Health citizenship delivered through trusted faith communities — the exact model Agape already lives out in Tucson.

Congregation-led wellness
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Refugee

Refugee & new-American services

GED, digital literacy, workforce, acculturation — the Academy already teaches this. Point it at your learners.

Workforce + acculturation
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Workforce

Health-career pathways

Phlebotomy and allied-health training pathways can give refugee students a real on-ramp to employment.

Career on-ramps
Flagship joint initiative

🩸 The Refugee Sickle Cell Taskforce

The Sickle Cell Foundation of Arizona has long wanted a Refugee Taskforce for Sickle Cell — and the Refugee Resource Center is the ideal home for it. This is the single most compelling place our three worlds meet: faith community, refugee services, and a health partner with a real mission.

  • Why now: sickle cell is highly prevalent among families from sub-Saharan Africa and other refugee-origin regions, yet screening and follow-up often fall through the cracks on arrival.
  • What it does: trusted, in-language education → screening events → navigation to testing and care → community health workers drawn from the refugee community itself.
  • Why it funds: refugee health + sickle cell + workforce is a strong grant story (ORR, HRSA, state and community foundations), run cleanly through the FFH Foundation.
Step 5 · Priorities & timelines

What is Now, Next, and Later

We capture this live in the meeting. Fill the owner and target date together — it becomes the shared plan.

PriorityWhenOwnerTarget date
Refresh church website + GiveNow
Stand up Refugee Resource Center pageNow
Pilot one learning track (GED or digital literacy)Next
Launch Refugee Sickle Cell Taskforce (with SCFA)Next
Line up grant funding via FoundationNext
Seeds of the Heart missions hub (Kenya + Pune)Later
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Step 6 · Optional levels of engagement

Pick the pace that fits — you can always step up

No pressure and no lock-in. Each level stands on its own and flows into the next.

Level 1 · Front Door

Quick win · low cost
  • Clean template church site
  • Service times, events, sermons
  • Strong online Give button
  • Simple Refugee Center info page

Level 2 · Learning Hub

The real opportunity
  • Everything in Level 1
  • Branded Academy hub for the Refugee Center
  • 1–2 tracks (GED / digital literacy)
  • Multilingual tutor + progress tracking
  • Refugee Sickle Cell Taskforce with SCFA

Level 3 · Director & Missions

Full ecosystem
  • Everything in Level 2
  • Valeene activated as community Director
  • Grant funding via the Foundation
  • Workforce + health-career pathways
  • Seeds of the Heart hub (Kenya + Pune)

📝 Live session summary

As you check needs and pick a level above, they will collect here for the recap.
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